The person who copied the outer quire was almost certainly the book’s compiler, since he also made additions to the contents of the inner booklet. 1520, judging from evidence of script and watermarks, bound within a substantial outer quire that was copied by a single hand, likely over a period of time, c.
This manuscript consists of an inner booklet, possibly copied as early as c. A testament to the confluence of Christian belief and superstition and of scientific and magical practice in sixteenth-century Italy, this book was probably compiled for use by a practitioner of alchemy and medicine. At its center, John of Rupescissa’s Liber lucis, a rarity on the market, details a recipe for the philosophers’ stone. In this remarkable Renaissance manuscript, arcane magical incantations and alchemical formulae lie concealed within a modest original binding whose inscription announces a compendium of medical recipes. CONTEMPORARY BINDING of limp parchment, with an upside-down inscription on the upper cover in faded brown ink, “Libro di icette bone per li corpi humani et a rimedij boni per Cau,” staining and significant wear and losses due to worming along the lower half of the upper hinge and in much of the lower cover. 35 has six horizontal folds, with splitting occurring along three. 3, 54-55, 56v-57 in two large contemporary cursive hands, the second of which may be a more sprawling form of the cursive hand in I, some rubbing and staining with no loss of text, f. 35rv, no ruling, written in a mercantesca hand in long lines recipes added on ff. 32v-34v in the cursive hand from I, two- to three-line initials in brown ink III. 23-34v, horizontal ruling in light brown crayon, with full-length vertical bounding lines ruled in hardpoint, two sets of prickings for every horizontal ruling in inner and outer margins (justification 115-117 x 80-84 mm.), written in a compact Gothic rotunda script with some humanistic forms on twenty-five long lines, with additions on ff. 5-22v, 36-53v, ruling in lead point visible on some leaves, often with full-length vertical bounding lines, prickings for every horizontal ruling in inner and outer margins (justification 117-132 x 90-98 mm.), written in a slanted humanistic cursive script on fifteen to seventeen long lines, with additions in different ink but the same hand on ff. 760, “Arbalète”: Florence, 1523, Viktring (Carinthia), 1524, Lucca, 1526/28, Fabriano, 1526, modern foliation in pencil, upper outer recto, 1-57 (collation i 44 ), layout varies, I. 57 folios on paper, watermarks similar to Briquet no.
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